08/26/2012

There is a bruise pressed against my tongue, big enough to make a sound like a voiceover set against a silent film. j/j Hastain’s poetic and visual journey, prurient anarchic omnibus, is that moving image. Imagine body as a spool of film, projecting portraits that can be spoken or felt — sometimes both or just…

Aimee Herman's poetry can be read in Polari Journal, Mad Rush, and/or journal, Cake Train, and Sous Les Paves. Her full-length book of poetry, to go without blinking, is being published by BlazeVOX Books.

07/16/2012

1. TC Tolbert: The first thing that strikes me about your work is the expansiveness of it (both literally expansive — utilizing the entire page, orchestrating white space in long past the presence of common — and tonally expansive, expansive in address). Can you talk to me about that? What’s it like in your head? j/j…

04/09/2012

For a minute or two in the late 1990s/early 2000s, I played Myst and its first sequel, Riven. I loved the way the games allowed me to closely explore the world on the screen, down to what was then an unheard-of degree of detail. To be honest, I spent more time putting my virtual nose…

Jen Besemer is the author of Ten Word Problems, Quiet Vertical Movements, and The Earth Is What Happens. A frequent contributor to Rain Taxi Review of Books, Jen also regularly has visual and prose poems in places like BlazeVOX, Otoliths, Artifice, and PANK.

02/17/2012

Are you strong enough to let go of your internalized ideation of gender, form, identity, and sexuality? Are you willing to become a provocation or become provoked by the pages of this book? Are you curious, do you have longing, are you ready to open yourself, to be the confidante we in my Trans by…